I dont know who thought about it but if always we have to wait that much for the updates after a hotfix or something, not even a big patch, blizzard can spot the botters easily. They always monitoring the game times and most of us botting 24 hours a day, so if you dont even log in or play atleast half that time after the hotfix or patches it's very suspicious. So blizzard dont need any fancy programs or big efforst to catch the botters, they probably do it easily with every hotfixes, patches, reports. They just ban them after when they noticed a lot, easier to ban 200 then 1 by 1. If they ban 1 bot user it means mostly nothing for the economy, but if they ban 100-200 everybody will feel it, i mean the casuals. So yea, the point is i think if you log in and try to do what your bot made before the updates maybe it will has longer life, but maybe im wrong. It seems so easy and logical to me. If you play 20+ hours a day but you not log in after the updates and you farm a lot.....only the stupid dont see what is going on. And it not even hard to make a program what watch the gaming time differences after the updates...
What you say is basically called "Behavioral analyze" in that industry. Which is already known to many long-term botters. Those who has business with bots, will not care any way. They can any time restart with another 4 licenses & do their trick within 1 week. Those who are semi-casuals, or botting for fun since 6m to 2y+ should already be in-line with general unwritten rules. -- It is simply; pre-Bot period habit: Daily 4 hours, mostly after 8:00pm to 12:01am. after-Bot period: Daily > 9 hours, including general work hours, or late night. Simply will be pwned soon. Correct scenario; pre-Bot period: Daily 9 hours, including work hours or late night. after-Bot period: Daily 8-12 hours, including work hours or late night. -- Never stick to one profile for too long. Sometimes do upgrades, create new characters, try playing with them a bit. Keep botting in compliance with human nature. -- Or purchase your D3 license, start with Bot from the first date 7/24. Mostly you will keep your account living for enough long time. Because behavioral analyze statistics will be in your favor without any dramatic change. If later you will turn to 9 hours per day regularly, you will be pwned. -- And try to stay away from combat routines or profiles executing tasks with inhuman reflexes (3 skills within 1 second & maintaining this etc.)
